Jude 2

Ike was still charging like a freight train all the way up here in Indiana. 75 miles an hour wind gusts... pretty ugly!

I drove around with some other busdrivers to survey the damage.. it was too much like what I witnessed in Florida, only on a much smaller scale of course. There are trees, signs, power lines down, lots of people without power. I can only imagine what the folks in Texas are going through!

On the plus side, there is no school tomorrow so we get a day off...

Where in Indiana are you?

Ike wasn't the nicest guest in Southest Missouri either! Lots & lots of trees
down & lots of folk without power. We're very thankful
that we didn't have catastrophic damage in our area (that I know
of). However, I'm still without power at my house.

We had power at church tonight - so I snuck my laptop into one of
the classrooms during service to charge it up so I'd
have some communication from the "real" world when I got
home.

Things were pretty rough this morning. We dismissed our
morning services as the wind was blowing quite ferociously,
no one from our church had power, and we had several trees
down blocking the roads to our church.

Strange weather - we had lots of telephone poles where the tops
snapped in half. I also found it odd that the wind was blowing from
due South - then we had a 30 minute lull and the wind began blowing
from due North. Then kept switching back & forth. Spooky!

Pianoman wrote:Ike wasn't the nicest guest in Southest Missouri either! Lots & lots of trees
down & lots of folk without power. We're very thankful
that we didn't have catastrophic damage in our area (that I know
of). However, I'm still without power at my house.

We had power at church tonight - so I snuck my laptop into one of
the classrooms during service to charge it up so I'd
have some communication from the "real" world when I got
home.

Things were pretty rough this morning. We dismissed our
morning services as the wind was blowing quite ferociously,
no one from our church had power, and we had several trees
down blocking the roads to our church.

Strange weather - we had lots of telephone poles where the tops
snapped in half. I also found it odd that the wind was blowing from
due South - then we had a 30 minute lull and the wind began blowing
from due North. Then kept switching back & forth. Spooky!

Pianoman--

Over here in Springfield we were fortunate. Aside from a bunch of Farm Roads flooding we didn't get too much damage here in Springfield and I thank the Lord for that.

EagerBeaver wrote:
Pianoman--

Over here in Springfield we were fortunate. Aside from a bunch of Farm Roads flooding we didn't get too much damage here in Springfield and I thank the Lord for that.

That's good. So odd though. I think we only got
an inch or 2 of rain. We mostly had the high winds.

Haven't been able to see the news all day - so didn't
really know what was going on anyplace else.

Pulled out some of my supplies from the ice storm last
winter. My favorites are one of those crank flashlights &
also a crank radio/flashlight. Those are lifesavers. Never
failed when I had battery powered flashlights that every
time I needed one the battery was dead. I put a crank one
in my car as well because of the same problem.

I have a lot of family in Houston and they are all safe, but won't have power for awhile. please keep them in your prayers!

wendy k

In Tennessee, two men sitting in a golf cart on the 16th hole of a Nashville golf course were killed when a tree fell over on them Sunday morning, fire department spokesman Ricky Taylor said.

Read above on an AP story. Nashville folks - what kind
of weather did you have? Surely not as bad as we
had to be out playing golf?

I live in Smyrna, TN., about 20+ miles southeast of Nashville. We had a little rain, but had very strong and steady winds, it would not have been a good day to go sailing.

I don't know of any major damage locally, just some minor stuff.


TW

In Chicagoland we have flooding everywhere! Most local schools are closed today due to flooding and so many closed roads.

WOW look at how many states have been effected by this storm One storm so big it is unreal...

ToJJB, we are just over the river from Louisville, KY... surprising that you had so much rain! We had very very little, it was all wind here.

Our shed blew away leaving the stuff sitting there...reminiscent of Florida. We have one tree down, but no major damage. Hoping we can make an insurance claim for the shed and get something back from Ike.

we got slammed pretty hard in Ohio...the area i live, just north east of columbus had lots of power down, no schools, downed trees, blocked roads and all that stuff!!! I was out driving in it yesterday and the wind was blowing the trees so hard that leaves were flying so thick in the air, it looked liked a snow storm! Small twiqs were hitting the car as we were driving....no damage to the car ...thank God. On a small two lane country raod...a big limb broke about 8 sec before we got to that part of the road . I had to get out and move the limb so we could get through...it was quite the afternoon.....

..just found out our schools are out again tomorrow.

We had 9" of rain in my town. North of Chicago was over 10"!!! It has been dry (coming from the sky) for 24 hours now and we don't know what to do...LOL.

We had (Hermitage) some severe winds and rain. It began raining like a big dog as I was praying the dismisal prayer. Our people were kinda chuckling about it......then as soon as I stopped praying, it quit raining.....then came some serious humidity.

The two men killed in the golf cart were not far from my house. They knew better than to get under a tree for shelter....but the golf course should have shut down in that kind of wind. ......35 mph.

We had a lot of damage......but the church was fine....no problem there.